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Pharmaceutical noncompliance is a tremendous problem in the United States. Estimated annual costs of patients not taking their medications approaches $300 billion.1 It is also estimated that 125,000 Americans die annually (342 people every day) due to poor medication adherence and 10% - 25% of hospital and nursing home admissions are also caused by people's inability to take their medications as prescribed.2 More Information
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And the winners are. . .
2009 Compliance Package of the Year: PfizerTM ToviazTM Physican Sample
Innovative Design: VitalityTM GlowCapTM
First Runner Up: Bristol-Myers Squibb OnglyzaTM Physican Sample
Second Runner Up: GlaxoSmithKline Lamictal® ODT Titration
Plan to enter your compliance prompting packaging in the 2010 competition. HCPC will be accepting entries for the annual Compliance Package of the Year Awards November 15, 2010 - March 15, 2011.
For more information on how to enter your firm's package click here. | |
18th Annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance
May 5, 2010
The recent Symposium provided the latest trends and topics impacting pharmaceutical compliance prompting packaging. Discussions and presentations topics included healthcare reform, electronic compliance packaging, packaging and human interaction research conducted by Michigan State University, recent activities of HCPC-Europe, and the new patient centered medical home movement.
To download the speaker presentations, please click here.
The results of the 2009 Compliance Package of the Year awards ceremony can be reviewed by clicking here.
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